Help! I need workout support and motivation bad!!!

crestchick82
crestchick82 Posts: 32
edited October 2 in Motivation and Support
So I'm a junior in high school and it's my hardest grade yet, balancing AP classes, athletic training, and trying to lose weight before prom. Lately I've been so unmotivated. I have to be a football practice every week day till seven and on Thursdays an Fridays anywhere from 10 to 2 o clock in the morning. By the end of everything I'm SO tired plus I have school in the morning. On the weekends I try to spend as much time with friends since in don't see them much anymore due to my hectic week. I stick with calorie countin but I can't seem to find the time, energy, or motivation to work out. Please help. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do or ways to break the laziness cycle. I'd greatly appreciate it.

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  • ajr050969
    ajr050969 Posts: 20 Member
    Reading all the activities in your post made ME tired! :smile: Focus on eating lots of fruits and veggies, staying away from non-diet pop, and fried foods. when football season ends you can focus on calorie counting. Just make sure the food you put in your mouth is as healty of a choice as you are able to make. Good Luck!
  • macylane4
    macylane4 Posts: 224
    Walk home from school with you book bag with all your books..I used to do that in high school and I stayed a lean mean 120lbs!!!
  • crestchick82
    crestchick82 Posts: 32
    Reading all the activities in your post made ME tired! :smile: Focus on eating lots of fruits and veggies, staying away from non-diet pop, and fried foods. when football season ends you can focus on calorie counting. Just make sure the food you put in your mouth is as healty of a choice as you are able to make. Good Luck!

    Thanks I'll try as much as possible :) i have to eat the same meals as the boys do and it's reallyyy hard balancing eating pizza and spaghetti for every meal but I really try my best
  • sonyachan
    sonyachan Posts: 518 Member
    I would recommend that you try to sneak in a few minutes of exercise throughout the day. A few minutes in the morning, maybe a little before football, a few minutes after practice. Keep up the good work! Good luck!
  • ObscuraE
    ObscuraE Posts: 2
    I guess it depends on the areas you want too work on, but i found that after work etc i just wanted to sit and relax and watch tv. so i used weighted balls while i watched tv, i juggled them, tossed them between my hands and did reps lifting them in lots of different ways, you can work shoulders and arms easily. You can also get some leg weights to use while watching tv. I found that it didnt feel like exercise like that! OR hula hoop to music with a GREAT BEAT!, its fun!!! hope that helps!
  • crestchick82
    crestchick82 Posts: 32
    Walk home from school with you book bag with all your books..I used to do that in high school and I stayed a lean mean 120lbs!!!

    Thanks for the suggestion but if I did that I wouldn't make it home lol I live a ways away from my school. I wish I could tho if I could I would
  • crestchick82
    crestchick82 Posts: 32
    I would recommend that you try to sneak in a few minutes of exercise throughout the day. A few minutes in the morning, maybe a little before football, a few minutes after practice. Keep up the good work! Good luck!

    Thanks and I try, I need to try harder tho. Lack of motivation has always been the reason losing weight has failed for me in the past so I refuse to give up this time. I get a little exercise at training i need to start walking more around practice and such.
  • BanderaOutlaw
    BanderaOutlaw Posts: 35
    You can totally do this, you've got all the right ingredients to successfully get to your desired weight - youth, friends, motivation, access to coaches/trainers/equipment, and a big life change coming up in heading off to college in the next two years.

    It sounds like you're fairly active, but spaghetti and pizza can get you when it comes to weight loss. Losing weight has far more to do with diet than exercise - not having enough energy for exercise is okay, so long as you've eaten the right kind and right amount of foods throughout the day.

    A big step for me was recognizing the separation between food for fuel and food for pleasure - not every meal is meant to be a firecracking delight for the tastebuds, nor do healthy meals have to be bland and boring. Recognize your ratio of crap meals to healthy meals, and just begin to shift that ratio over to the better side. At my heaviest, I was easily eating three indulgent meals a day with two or more indulgence snacks in between...snacks as in Dairy Queen Blizzards, a row of cookies from an Oreo bag, two to three bowls of chocolate cereal in a sitting, etc. If I ate healthy at all, it was at best one meal in a day - and that would usually be my only healthy meal for days, even weeks. If you don't give your diet the attention it deserves, it is stunningly easy to mindlessly eat crap for days, weeks on end.

    Try to make one meal a day healthy at first. Then two meals. Then three meals. Then four, and adjust portions accordingly, with an indulgent meal here and there. I adhere to the slow-carb diet Tim Ferriss writes about, which allows me one binge day a week to eat what I love. It starts to become an enjoyable routine, instead of a daily internal battle.

    In high school, social pressure is insane, and it sounds like what your friends and peers are eating may be influencing what you eat. Learn where your weaknesses are, what outside influences are affecting your ability to eat right, and plan against them. If every day at lunch you're eating spaghetti and pizza because that's what everyone else is having, commit to packing your lunch and making that your must-eat-healthy meal of the day.

    When I started eating healthy, my coworkers at the newspaper were horrible - they made fun, harassed me about the smell of my food, about how I was eating like a rabbit, tried (many times successfully, at first) to get me to order take-out with them every day - it went on and on. If you can't surround yourself with encouraging and uplifting friends who support your goals (which, honestly, is hard to find in adulthood, much less in high school), make friends here in the forums and let them help you to stay motivated and on track. Check in daily, take time to visit, and commit to your goals out of love and respect for yourself.

    Best of luck! We're all here for you. :-)
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